Course: Problems of language &
discourse
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Group: Aya21-3M
Yessembayeva Moldir
Gulshat Arystankyzy
Bagzhan Uais
Abylai Kunkabayev
Shohruh Myrzabekov
Content
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Introduction
Main part:
 Quantitive approach
 Frame analysis
 Structure patterns
 Cultural dimensions
Conclusion
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(1901-1909)
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Discourse analysis
 Direction: audience;
 Message: powerful, motivational, public policy meaning
 Purpose: to appreciate the past and to leave a
splendid heritage unwasted and enlarged to our
children and our children's children.
 Initiator: president
 Performance: people
 Source: experience of the president Abraham Lincoln &
George Washington
 Lexical structure: Stylistic devices: hyberbole, dictation,
syntax, pathos, ethos.
 Text structure: patterns
Text complexity:
Quantitative features
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Total Word Count: 983
Word Count (Excluding Common
Words):
442
Number of Different Words: 383
Different Words (Excluding Common
Words):
307
Number of Paragraphs: 5
Number of Sentences:
30
Words per Sentence: 32.8
Number of Characters (all): 5,577
Number of Characters (a-z): 4,480
Characters per Word: 4.6
Syllables: 1,476
Syllables per Word: 1.5
Readability
Hard Words (?):
115 (11.70%)
Long Words (?):
202 (20.55%)
Lexical Density (?):
38.96
Lexical Density (without Stop Words)
(?): 44.96
Gunning Fog Index (?):
17.79
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Frame analysis
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We are the heirs of the ages, and yet we
have had to pay few of the penalties which in old countries
are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization.
“We inherited so much from our forefathers and we have a lot of
responsibilities than ever before dealing with the “oppressive
past influence” over our great country”.
• No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than
ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of
boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to
the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions
which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of
well-being and of happiness.
“We realize that we have been given much, in wealth, population,
power. God gave us the best conditions for existence which with
we are able to have so much power, high standards for living than
any other nations”.
Intertextuality
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 “to the Giver of Good who has blessed us” Theodore
Roosevelt
 “God bless you, and God bless America.” Donald J.
Trump
 “God's grace upon us… God bless the United States of
America.” Barack Obama
 “…asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that
here on earth God's work must truly be our own.” John
F. Kennedy
He uses repetition as structure to emphasis
(intonation and emotiveness)
 We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the
peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is
right and not because we are afraid.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Hyperbole
Diction
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Pathos
Syntax
Ethos
Compare and Contrast
Text structure: patterns
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Our relations with the other powers of the world are important;
but still more important are our relations among ourselves.
Cause and effect
We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are
afraid. No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever
have cause to fear us, and no strong power should ever be able
to single us out as a subject for insolent aggression.
Sequence
 we must behave as beseems a people with such
responsibilities;
 our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship.
 We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we
are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting
toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all
their rights.
 we must be no less insistent that we are not wronged ourselves.
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Long-Term Orientation
 “But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the
memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their
work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy.
We in our turn have an assured confidence that we
shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and
enlarged to our children and our children's children”.
The President’s intentions are:
 To show a full acknowledgment of the responsibility as
a great nation with enormous power;
 Toward all other nations, large and small, acting
toward them in a spirit of just and generous
recognition of all their rights, the attitude must be one
of cordial and sincere friendship.
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Cultural dimensions
Uncertainty Avoidance
 “We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of
its greatness into relations with the other nations of the
earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with
such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and
small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere
friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our
deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their
good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and
generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and
generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most
when shown not by the weak but by the strong.”
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The message of the speech
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Thank you for
your attention!